A couple in their 70s who have been fostering children for more than 30 years say they have no plans to retire. Keith and Helen Atkinson, from Walmersley, have opened their home to 31 children, mainly ...

At first glance, 2025 was not a very good year for the movement to end the death penalty in the United States. The number of ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled last week that the state Constitution allows the Legislature to vote by a two-thirds ...

Supreme Court Judge Ibrahim Khadhar Mohammed died Wednesday following an illness. According to reports, the judge, who was ...

To his supporters, former media mogul Jimmy Lai is a fighter for democracy. Lai, 78, is an outspoken critic of China’s ruling ...

A pair of initiatives barreling toward the 2026 ballot could give voters a direct say in upending tenets of the state’s ...

I have read your Substack post from 3 December 2025. From the outset, let me extend congratulations to the US on assuming the G20 Presidency. We offer our sincere wishes for a successful term, one ...

International relations minister Ronald Lamola writes that South Africa does not seek approval for the country’s path from the United States. He says our path is our own, chosen by our people and ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party on Sunday received its members' mandate to proceed with steps toward a potential disbandment, part of the erosion of political freedoms as ...

The Representative and Chief of Taiwan Mission in Nigeria, Andy Liu, has explained why the President Bola Tinubu administration should consent to renewal of the 1994 bilateral Agreement for Investment ...

Mario Joseph, a prominent Haitian human rights lawyer, has died in a car accident at the age of 62. Joseph was an attorney at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and represented many ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in Tuesday to a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country ...